Epistles on the Arian Heresy
Alexander of Alexandria
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1. The ambitious and avaricious will of wicked men
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Epistles on the Arian Heresy
Alexander of Alexandria
1. The ambitious and avaricious will of wicked men
[See p. 290, note 1, supra.]
Colluthus, being a presbyter of Alexandria, puffed up with arrogance and temerity, had acted as a bishop, and had ordained many priests and deacons. But in the synod that was assembled at Alexandria all his acts of ordination were rescinded; and those who had been ordained by him degraded to the rank of laymen.—Tr.
[Perhaps a quotation, and hence a token of verity as to what is narrated of Peter, p. 263, note 4, supra.]